Starting with the photo that makes me look like a fantastic homeschooler.
Yesterday I:
- baked raisin bran muffins
- went over to-do lists
- made my bed and put away laundry
- taught a calculus lesson to the 16yo — really a precalculus review, just graphs and slopes and intercepts
- taught an algebra lesson to the 12yo — simplifying numerical expressions and evaluating variable expressions
- met the three middle kids to assign Bible reading, find out who was the saint of the day, and introduce the 6yo to his catechism copybook
- went through a math lesson with the 6yo — comparing two-digit numbers and reviewing how to tell time by the hour
- phonics sheet with the 6yo — sorting words with "ou" pronounced as in "cousin" from words with "ou" pronounced as in "mouth"
- had 6yo read to me the first few pages of Mr. Putter and Tabby Pour the Tea by Cynthia Rylant
- cut up 6 apples out of each of which the toddler had taken 1 bite
- ate leftover lentil vegetable soup and cheese sandwich on sourdough bread, while children ate their favorite brand of frozen pizza and cut-up apples
- messed with FB while the children cleaned up lunch
- put vegetarian taco soup contents into crockpot
- cooked, for the freezer, two chili-pots' worth of ground turkey, onion, and spices
- rested, flung onto made bed, for a little while, while children played video games
- hoisted the toddler on my back in the carrier and walked to the library to find books about geckos
- brought home books about sharks, sea otters, and T. rex instead because gecko books were not located where the library said they would be
- welcomed the 6yo's biweekly playdate, who arrived dressed in a superhero costume with padded muscles
- called 6yos down to read to them from the introduction to Story of the World Vol. 1. Playdate child said "I'm kind of tired of having people read to me." I said "Your mother said it would be good if I read history to the two of you while you were here, so you have to." Read as animatedly as I possibly could, and managed to keep their attention.
- called 10yo back to her math 50,000 times
- showed 10- and 12-yos how to check their own work in the mechanics practice book
- made a salad for my 16yo who had to leave for climbing team tryouts before Mark got home for dinner, and let him get his own soup
- set up dinner for the rest of us buffet-style
- had dinner together
- nursed toddler
- took everybody to the Y. Ran at medium-to-high intensity for 20 minutes. The hip is getting better.
- picked up 16yo from the climbing gym on the way home
- drank a glass of red wine while messing with Facebook and reading bits out of a French novel
- went downstairs and ate almost all the Goldfish crackers left over from the toddler's bedtime snack
- collapsed into bed.
What, I have to do it again today?
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